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STACHYS

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Meaning:

Large genus of usually woolly or hairy herbs or subshrubs or shrubs; temperate eastern hemisphere; tropical Australasia

Synonyms:

genus Stachys; Stachys

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Stachys" is a kind of...):

asterid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs)

Meronyms (members of "Stachys"):

dead nettle; hedge nettle; Stachys sylvatica (foul-smelling perennial Eurasiatic herb with a green creeping rhizome)

hedge nettle; Stachys palustris (perennial herb with an odorless rhizome widespread in moist places in northern hemisphere)

Holonyms ("Stachys" is a member of...):

family Labiatae; family Lamiaceae; Labiatae; Lamiaceae; mint family (a large family of aromatic herbs and shrubs having flowers resembling the lips of a mouth and four-lobed ovaries yielding four one-seeded nutlets and including mint; thyme; sage; rosemary)

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